Improvement in mats for picture-frames



H. S. HALE.

Mats for Picture-Frames. N0.155,082. Patented Sept.15,1874.

U NITED STATES PATEN'J'. FFICE.-

HENRY S. HALE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, A. KILBURN, J. W. HALE, H. W. CURTIS, O. KILBURN, AND WARREN HALE, OF SAME PLAOE.

IIV IPROVEMENT IN MATS FOR PICTURE-FRAMES.

Specification ferming part of Letters Patent No. 155,082, dated September 15, 1874; applicatien fi1ed March 5, 1874.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY S. HALE, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Impreved Mat for Picture-Frames, of which the fellewing is a speeifieatien:

The object of my -inventien is te make a cheap imitatien of selid weeden mats fer picture-frames, by seeuring te a suppertingframe er stifl"ening-ribs thin "eneer baeked by a suitable fabrie, which se re-enferees the weed as te enable me te engrave en the faee ornament-al greeves fer reeeiving the gilding, in accerdanee with the mede of ernamentatien 110W adepted.

In the aecempanying drawin g, Fignre 1 represents a face view of the mat; and Fig. 2, a seetienal plan, shewing the fabrie detaehed frem the veneer; and Fig. 3, a sectienal view, shewing the stifianing-ribs at the rear of the mat.

I take erdinary veneer A, of the size of the desired mat, and secure te the back, with glue er ether suitable cement, a strip, B, of canvas, muslin, eanton-flannel, er ether eheap suitable fabrie, and then fasten te the back at all feur edges the stiffning-strips D, whieh are snffieiently thin te per1nit the proper fitting of the mat into the rabbet of the pieture-frame. After the fabrie and strips have thus been seeured te the back of the veneer, the front may be preperly smoothed and polished, and serell er ether ernarnents made, aecerding te the taste of the manufaeturer, by

engraving the weed and gilding the sunken parts made by the en gravers teel, after whieh the eentral opening, of au ex-*al er ether shape, may be made fer the display of the picture, by eutting out the weed and its hacking.

When very thin veneers of costly 'ereign weeds are used, I glue te the back of the fabrie a thin strip ef erdinary pine er ether eheap weed, se as te atferd an additienal re-enfereement of thin veneer, the narrew edgng ef stiffening-strips being seeured te this hacking of weed.

'lhe mats thus manufaetured are n1uch chea-per, and quite equal in appearanee te, and net se liable te split as, a solid mat, and are n1ueh more readily and eeenemieall y manufaetured than the mats made of several layers of veneers glued tegether.

1 de net claim, hreadly, a mat in which the veneer is re-enfereed by a backing of fabrie; but

I claim as a new artiele of mannfactnre- In eembinatien with a mat eensisting of a veneer faee having a backing of 'abrie, the snppertingribs D, substantially as and fer the purpese set ferth.

In testimeny whereef I have signed my name te this speeifieatien in the presence of two snbscribing witnesses.

HENRY S. HALE.

Witnesses:

WM. A. STEEL, HARRY SMI'1H. 

